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Onset of deglacial warming in West Antarctica driven by local orbital forcing
- Fudge, TJ;
- Steig, Eric J;
- Markle, Bradley R;
- Schoenemann, Spruce W;
- Ding, Qinghua;
- Taylor, Kendrick C;
- McConnell, Joseph R;
- Brook, Edward J;
- Sowers, Todd;
- White, James WC;
- Alley, Richard B;
- Cheng, Hai;
- Clow, Gary D;
- Cole-Dai, Jihong;
- Conway, Howard;
- Cuffey, Kurt M;
- Edwards, Jon S;
- Edwards, R Lawrence;
- Edwards, Ross;
- Fegyveresi, John M;
- Ferris, David;
- Fitzpatrick, Joan J;
- Johnson, Jay;
- Hargreaves, Geoffrey;
- Lee, James E;
- Maselli, Olivia J;
- Mason, William;
- McGwire, Kenneth C;
- Mitchell, Logan E;
- Mortensen, Nicolai;
- Neff, Peter;
- Orsi, Anais J;
- Popp, Trevor J;
- Schauer, Andrew J;
- Severinghaus, Jeffrey P;
- Sigl, Michael;
- Spencer, Matthew K;
- Vaughn, Bruce H;
- Voigt, Donald E;
- Waddington, Edwin D;
- Wang, Xianfeng;
- Wong, Gifford J
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https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12376Abstract
An annually resolved ice-core record from West Antarctica indicates that warming driven by local insolation resulting from sea-ice decline began in that region about 2,000 years before warming in East Antarctica, reconciling two alternative explanations for deglacial warming in the Southern Hemisphere.
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